Datebook 1919: Saturday, December 20, 1919

Bright winter's day but milder. To College 9 to 11 A.M. ~~Stayed to Chapel~~. Fooled around in P.M. Candled eggs. Took nap etc. To basketball game at night. Union-Colgate. Score 17-26. Watched dancing for a while. Down town. Fooled around. Watched Bowling. To bed 11 P.M.

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Well, let's face it--Union College was no sports powerhouse. I wonder what dancing Stanford refers to here? Did it have something to do with the basketball game?

I guess Stanford mis-remembered having gone to chapel that day and crossed it out once he thought about it.

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband and son. I'm starting with the first one, written in 1919, but I plan to record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--May 5, 1919 to May 5, 2013, for instance--with one entry per day. So it will take a year to get through the first diary.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford. By doing this, I hope to convey a sense of 1919 Schenectady, New York and the people Stanford interacted with. Of course, I'm also hoping to give Stanford's descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1919

Saturday, December 20, 1919

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